2015-03-17 Evening: writing correction & driving

Greg Malivuk
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Write about a time when you or someone you know got into trouble with the police or other authority. (If you never have, write about a friend or invent or "invent" a story.)
- You can email the story to me if you want me to print it out and bring it to class on Tuesday.
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I got in trouble because I had been drinking.

They asked me, "What are you doing?"
    They asked me what I was doing.

I asked myself why I had done that.
I asked myself, "Why did I do this?"

I thought there was no way I could do that.
I thought, "There is no way I can do this."
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I am at school.    / I am in Boston.     / I am on Chauncy St.
I arrive at school / I arrive in Boston. / I arrive on Chauncy St.

go to school / go to Boston / go to Chauncy St.
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I crossed the yellow line in the road.
I went through the yellow light.
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p. 8

set the tone: establish the expectations for something

As slow as I was already going, things got worse when I had to drop to 50mph.

undermine: weaken, make something "shaky"